Almost every country has its own way of celebrating a birthday and there must be a distinguishing trait, but the same thing is people are happy on their own birthdays enjoying the day with their family and friends. In korea,a birthday is one of the important days for each person, so people want to make the day special. First, they eat brown-seaweed soup on their birthday. Eating the soup on a birthday has originated from the birth of a child. After having a baby, a mother eats the soup ,which is highly nutritious, because it is good for her circulation of blood and metabolism. People usually have the soup at meals with thier family at home. After that, young people often have a party with thier close friends, drinking and having fun. People in their age of forty or fifty invite their siblings and relatives to the party and then serve up some food. Givinging gifts and cards is also very important. Thesedays many people celebrate a birthday with a cake and they put out a candle with a great blessing.